Word: paragone
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...boldest touch is the interpretation of Alcestis. Usually seen as a paragon of unselfishness, as played by Abigail Lewis she seems to take inhuman pleasure in her martyrdom. The loss of a foil for the other monsters is difficult to overcome--in this production impossible...
...candles, slapping up of Miss Darcel, and smiling by Lancaster--all designed to keep the viewer happy. Since the moral and psychological implications of the picture are almost nil, there are very few of those annoying expository speeches. When they occur they are usually couched in reference to a paragon of ruthlessness named Acc Hanna, whom Lancaster shot to death long before the start of the movie in return for various favors...
...public has been taught to think of him [the scientist] as a mental colossus and a moral paragon-austere, dedicated and all but beyond human vanities in his pursuit of the truth . . . To this assumption of the scientist's moral superiority there has suddenly been added the social pre-eminence a society accords its workers of magic...
...series of mathematical calculations, he boosted a cellar temperature from 50° to 60°, only to find that his claret began ripening far ahead of schedule and that it was all Christ Church men could do to drink it up in time. But otherwise, Mr. Dodgson was a paragon of scrupulous management, and once when a local merchant tried to ingratiate himself by sending a Christmas gift of fruit, he huffily sent it back. "Mr. Dodgson would have thought it hardly necessary " he wrote, "to point out that the curator whose duty it is to provide the best goods...
...paragon of service true, a goddess with a broom...